Updated: Injury accident involving CHP reported in Dairyville

A Red Bluff California Highway Patrol Officer was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding Thursday evening following a collision on Highway 99E in the Dairyville area.

CHP Public Information Officer Jake Bushey said the injured officer is Dave Madrigal, who was shot in the leg during an eight-hour stand-off in Gerber in 2008.

"We are not allowed to release specific injuries," Bushey said. "He will need surgery, but he is expected to make it."

According to the CHP press release, Madrigal, driving a specially marked CHP 2005 white Ford Crown Victoria, was responding to a Tehama County Sheriff's Department call for assistance at the time.

About 6:40 p.m., Madrigal, a 22-year CHP veteran, was driving south on 99E, just north of Eldrid Avenue, when he received a request to assist in pursuit of a stolen vehicle.

Madrigal activated his emergency lights, pulled to the right shoulder and began to make a U-turn when his vehicle was hit bye a southbound 1994 Jeep Cherokee, the release said.

Madrigal was able to notify Redding CHP dispatch via radio of the collision and request assistance. Several 911 calls from residents in the area were received.

Assistance was given by the sheriff's department, Red Bluff Police, CalFire and CHP units from Cottonwood Inspection Facility, Redding, Chico and Willows areas.

Madrigal was extricated from the vehicle and flown to Mercy. He is still at Mercy, but is not accepting phone calls or visitors at this time, the release said.

The driver of the Jeep, identified as Sean Stutsman, 22, of Chico, and his passenger declined medical aid at the scene, the release said.

All parties were wearing seatbelts at the time and alcohol and drugs were not a factor, according to the release. The speed of Stutsman's vehicle has not been determined.

Thursday's collision is being investigated by Red Bluff area CHP officers with help from CHP's Northern Division Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT).

Bushey confirmed that Madrigal was the officer shot in the Dec. 2, 2008, incident on Reno Avenue in the Gerber area.

During the initial shooting, that led to an eight-hour standoff, Madrigal was shot in the leg and pinned down in a hail of gunfire during an exchange that hit the CHP unit at least a dozen times and a Tehama County Sheriff's Department unit about 15 times, according to a Daily News article from 2008.

"CHP and sheriff's deputies had responded to a domestic disturbance report and arrived to find gunfire. Shooter James E. Long was found dead in the home that evening, having died of injuries sustained during the initial exchange of fire.